Record Review: The Consonance

The Consonance - Come The Day   4/5

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The Consonance, consisting of 6 jazz students from Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton have created Come The Day, a record that masters the genres of jazz and hip-hop while drawing on the elements of rock, pop, R&B and funk. Possessing striking maturity from Jesse Dollimont's vocals to skilled saxophonist Sophie Heppell, showcased on "Cost", The Consonance produce a style and record that stand alone.

Instant favourites like title track "Come The Day" and "More Alive Than Life Itself", find a funky groove and Justin McDonough's rhymes, who also doubles as the band's drummer, while staying more rooted in the band's jazz sound. Meanwhile, "Seeing Red" strays into alt-rock, and the enjoyable "Take Your Thyme" plays in pop elements, ripe for it's eventual remix. Album closer "Mind In Motion" finishes off the record with catchy lyrics, and an addictive groove. 


Come The Day is an impressive debut that is refreshing and finds its heart in every aspect of the music from vocals/rhymes to its instruments from a band that appears to not only have studied Coltrane but learned a little from the Fugees as well.

Download: "Come The Day"